"again. Transport Secretary Lord Adonis announced in April 2010 that barriers would not be installed until a second bridge was built to maintain a thoroughfare for non-ticket holders. From September 2010, East Midlands Trains have used uniformed staff to prevent local residents using the footbridge. At the same time, Sheffield City Council explored the possibility of turning the bridge into a public right-of-way to resolve the matter. In late 2010, it was reported that the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, MP for Sheffield Hallam, might intervene to resolve the impasse. In March 2012, Transport Minister Justine Greening offered £3 million"
"Sheffield Hallam (UK Parliament constituency) Sheffield Hallam is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Jared O'Mara. The seat has been relative to others a marginal seat since 2010 as its winner's majority has not exceeded 4.2% of the vote since the 29.9% majority won in that year. The seat has changed hands once since that year. It has returned a Labour MP for the first time since its first election in 1885 and, apart from a brief period between 1916 and 1918, was held by the Conservatives from 1885 until 1997,"
"and other constituencies where similar problems had occurred. This followed the resignation of Charles Stuart-Wortley on 16 December. Herbert Fisher of the Liberal Party was elected unopposed, becoming Hallam's first non-Unionist MP. Sheffield Hallam (UK Parliament constituency) Sheffield Hallam is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Jared O'Mara. The seat has been relative to others a marginal seat since 2010 as its winner's majority has not exceeded 4.2% of the vote since the 29.9% majority won in that year. The seat has changed hands once since that year. It has returned"
"Sheffield Hallam in 1987. During his time as an MP he was a Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury and deputy Chairman of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Select Committee. He left politics after he lost his seat in the 1997 general election to the Liberal Democrat Richard Allan. Patnick was on the right wing of the Conservative Party. He was against sanctions on apartheid South Africa, voted to reintroduce the death penalty, strongly supported Section 28 and, in a similar vein, opposed reducing the age of consent for homosexuals. He coined the phrase 'People's Republic of South Yorkshire' in"
"Richard Allan, Baron Allan of Hallam Richard Beecroft Allan, Baron Allan of Hallam (born 11 February 1966) is a British politician and life peer. He was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam from the general election of Thursday 1 May 1997 until the dissolution of Parliament on 11 April 2005. He was made a life peer in the 2010 Dissolution Honours. Allan was born in Sheffield. He went to the independent Oundle School in north-east Northamptonshire. He studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and gained a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology in 1988. From Bristol Polytechnic, he gained"
"Sheffield Hallam to Jared O'Mara of the Labour Party, and Zac Goldsmith of the Conservatives regained Richmond Park from Sarah Olney with a very narrow majority of 45 votes. Party membership exceeded 100,000 during the campaign. On 14 June, following the election, Farron announced his intention to stand down as leader of the Liberal Democrats. Sir Vince Cable was elected unopposed to the leadership of the party on 20 July 2017 following Farron's resignation. Before his election, Cable argued for an ""exit from Brexit"", calling for a second referendum on the UK's relationship with the European Union. The ideology of"
"the east. It includes the wards of Crookes, Dore and Totley, Ecclesall, Fulwood and Stannington. The majority of Hallam is rural, spreading in the west into the Peak District National Park. It also contains some of the least deprived wards in the country, has low unemployment (1.5% jobseekers claimants in November 2012) and a high rate of owner occupancy with few occupants who rent their home. Since the 2010 boundary changes, neither of Sheffield's universities have a campus in the constituency but it still includes areas where many students live. In the 2017 general election, the Labour party candidate, Jared"
"by the political left. Up until and including the 2015 general election, the only seat in South Yorkshire not held by Labour was Sheffield Hallam; which was held at the time of the election by the-then Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg. However, despite not winning, the seat did experience an increase in the Labour vote and the Labour Party candidate Oliver Coppard significantly reduced then-Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg's majority from 15,284 votes to just 2,353 votes.. Labour, supported by the left-wing group Momentum, gained Sheffield Hallam at the 2017 snap general election for"
"Marbles. Allan married Louise Netley on 25 May 1991 in Bath, Somerset. They have since separated and Allan has twin daughters with his current partner. Richard Allan, Baron Allan of Hallam Richard Beecroft Allan, Baron Allan of Hallam (born 11 February 1966) is a British politician and life peer. He was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam from the general election of Thursday 1 May 1997 until the dissolution of Parliament on 11 April 2005. He was made a life peer in the 2010 Dissolution Honours. Allan was born in Sheffield. He went to the independent Oundle"
"applied to vote by proxy. O'Mara has never asked an oral question, and made his maiden speech on 24 July 2018, the day before the start of the summer recess. He was the 84th and final MP of the 2017 intake to make a maiden speech; the 83rd, David Duguid, spoke in November 2017. Jared O'Mara Jared Cain O'Mara (born 15 November 1981) is a British politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Sheffield Hallam since 8 June 2017, and was elected as the Labour candidate. After joining Parliament, O'Mara became a member of"
"was almost lost to the Scottish National Party in the latter's national landslide. The seat of Sheffield Hallam was notable in the run up to the 2015 general election when opinion polls were forecasting a Labour gain despite the incumbent MP, Nick Clegg, being at the time party leader and Deputy Prime Minister. The seat was however held, albeit with a much reduced majority of just 2,353 (4.2%). In 2017, several Lib Dem MPs either regained their seat, such as Vince Cable and Ed Davey, or won new ones, but several were still lost, despite the net gain in seats,"
"David Hallam David Hallam is a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of the European Parliament for the Herefordshire and Shropshire constituency in England, in the 1994–1999 European Parliament. Hallam first stood for the European Parliament in 1984 for the Shropshire and Stafford constituency; he stood again in 1989 and was elected on revised boundaries in 1994 for what was widely held to be a safe Conservative seat. During his five-year mandate Hallam was one of the Parliament’s most assiduous members, attending every session and recording votes on over 99% of all possible occasions. In the Parliament he served"
"Jared O'Mara Jared Cain O'Mara (born 15 November 1981) is a British politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Sheffield Hallam since 8 June 2017, and was elected as the Labour candidate. After joining Parliament, O'Mara became a member of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, but resigned in October 2017, following the publication of offensive comments about women and gay men that he had made in 2009 and earlier. O'Mara was suspended from the Labour Party on 25 October 2017, following further reports of online comments made before his election that have been"
"Furniss, a member of Sheffield City Council, won the by-election caused by his death as Labour candidate. Harry Harpham Robert Harry Harpham (21 February 1954 – 4 February 2016) was a British Labour Party politician and coal miner. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough from the May 2015 general election until he died nine months later. Harpham was born on 21 February 1954 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Harpham moved to Sheffield in 1985, and studied at Northern College in Barnsley and University of Sheffield as a mature student. He graduated from Sheffield with a"
"Harry Harpham Robert Harry Harpham (21 February 1954 – 4 February 2016) was a British Labour Party politician and coal miner. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough from the May 2015 general election until he died nine months later. Harpham was born on 21 February 1954 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Harpham moved to Sheffield in 1985, and studied at Northern College in Barnsley and University of Sheffield as a mature student. He graduated from Sheffield with a Bachelor's degree in 1991. Harpham left school at 16, and became a coal miner at Clipstone Colliery."
"The constituency representative from 2015 was Harry Harpham until he died on 4 February 2016. He was succeeded by his widow, Gill Furniss, who won a by-election on 5 May. The City of Sheffield wards of Burngreave, Firth Park, Hillsborough, Shiregreen and Brightside, and Southey. The last instance of either of the two predecessor seats being held by an MP from a party other than the Labour Party was the period for both before the 1935 general election. Majorities since World War II have been substantial suggesting a safe seat on historic voting preferences. The constituency consists of Census Output"
"music venue in Sheffield. O'Mara had stood as a Labour candidate in various Sheffield council elections. He supported Jeremy Corbyn's election as Leader of the Labour Party in 2015 and 2016, was a Momentum supporter and was backed by them during the 2017 election. In the 2017 general election, O'Mara contested the constituency of Sheffield Hallam, held by Nick Clegg, the former Liberal Democrat leader and former Deputy Prime Minister. He was selected in an emergency selection process for the snap election under the control of the National Executive Committee and regional boards, rather than by the local constituency party."
"Stocksbridge, Sheffield Central, Sheffield Heeley and Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough. Prior to its creation Hallam was a part of the larger Sheffield Borough constituency, which was represented by two Members of Parliament (MPs). In 1885 the Redistribution of Seats Act, which sought to eliminate constituencies with more than one MP and for the first time allow approximately equal representation of the people, led to the break-up of the constituency into five divisions: each represented by a single MP, as today. Hallam was one of these new divisions. Its first MP, the Conservative Charles Stuart-Wortley, had previously been an MP in"
"Sheffield area. It is under the patronage of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, whose feast is celebrated as a solemnity in the diocese on 27 June. The first Bishop of Hallam was Gerald Moverley, who resigned in July 1996 and died later that year. The second bishop was John Rawsthorne, who had previously been an auxiliary bishop of Liverpool and titular bishop of Rotdon. The third and current incumbent is Ralph Heskett, C.Ss.R., who had previously been Bishop of Gibraltar. The diocesan Cathedral is the Cathedral Church of St. Marie in the city centre of Sheffield. The parishes included in"
"60% of working age residents hold a degree, 7th highest and exceeding Cambridge. Prior to the 1997 general election, the constituency was a safe Conservative seat, and was the only Conservative seat in South Yorkshire in the three previous elections to that. From 2005 to 2017, it was represented in the House of Commons by Nick Clegg, who was leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015 and Deputy Prime Minister from 2010 to 2015. Hallam constituency extends from Stannington and Loxley in the north to Dore in the south and includes small parts of the city centre in"
"the Hillsborough ward of Sheffield City Council in 1998 but was subsequently elected in the Manor ward the following year. She was re-elected in the same ward in 2003, before being elected in the Southey ward until she stood down in 2016. She stood unsuccessfully as the Labour Party candidate for Sheffield Hallam in the 2001 general election, finishing in third place. She is the widow of Harry Harpham, MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, who employed her as a part-time researcher after his election in the 2015 general election. After her husband's death in February 2016, she was selected"
"1916 Sheffield Hallam by-election The Sheffield Hallam by-election, 1916 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Sheffield Hallam in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 23 December 1916. The by-election was caused by the elevation to the peerage of the sitting Unionist MP, Charles Wortley. Wortley’s ascent to the House of Lords was to enable a seat in the Commons to be found for H A L Fisher. Fisher was an historian and noted expert on education. From 1913-1917 he served as Vice Chancellor of the University of Sheffield. The prime minister David Lloyd George"
"and a seat on the House of Commons Liaison Select Committee. Richard Allan was the founding chairman of the Parthenon 2004 campaign for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. Allan did not seek reelection at the 2005 general election. He was succeeded by future Lib Dem leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, for whom he acted as campaign manager. On 22 July 2010, he was created a life peer as Baron Allan of Hallam, of Ecclesall, Sheffield, in the County of South Yorkshire, and was introduced in the House of Lords on 26 July 2010, where he sits as"
"John Hannam Sir John Gordon Hannam (born 2 August 1929) is a British Conservative politician. He was MP for Exeter from 1970 until his retirement in 1997. Yeovil Grammar School (Matriculation). Served in Army (National Service) in Middle East and then in the Territorial Army. A keen sportsman, John played hockey and tennis for Somerset and was Singles Champion in 1953. Later, in Parliament, he Captained the Lords and Commons Tennis and Ski Teams and is a Member of the All England Lawn Tennis and International Clubs. John built up his own business in Tourism and Hotels in the West"
"voted Labour, 33% Conservative, 16% UKIP, 7% Liberal Democrat and 4% Green. Labour had almost twice as many seats than the Conservatives with 33 Labour, 19 Conservative and 2 Liberal Democrat. There was a 2.5% swing from Conservative to Labour. However, although Labour has around 60% of the region's seats, the geographic spread is mostly Conservative, due to the Labour seats having a much smaller geographic area. Since the 2017 general election when Sheffield Hallam incumbent Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats) was defeated by Labour candidate Jared O'Mara, all of South Yorkshire is now held by Labour, and Labour is concentrated"
"the by-election. The Labour candidate was Gill Furniss, a Sheffield city councillor and the widow of Harry Harpham. UKIP's candidate was Steven Winstone, a local metal trader and businessman. He focused his campaign on protecting jobs in the local steel industry. He had stood for the party in Sheffield South East in the 2015 general election where he came second. The Conservatives selected Spencer Pitfield. The Liberal Democrats selected Shaffaq Mohammed, a city councillor. The Green Party reselected Christine Gilligan Kubo, a lecturer at Sheffield Business School, and their candidate from the 2015 general election. Bobby Smith of the New"
"2016 Sheffield City Council election Sheffield City Council elections took place on Thursday 5 May 2016, alongside nationwide local elections. All 84 seats were up for election, 3 per ward, after several electoral boundaries were changed. Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party contested all 84 seats. The Conservatives fielded 55 candidates, UKIP 43, TUSC 23 and Yorkshire First 1. There was also 1 independent candidate. Voters in the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Parliamentary constituency also elected Gill Furniss MP, in a by-election triggered by the death of her husband Harry Harpham MP. The result has the following consequences"
"England (including London), with almost 12% of residents earning over £60,000 a year. This measure placed Sheffield Hallam above Windsor and Twickenham. Based on 2011–12 income and tax statistics from HMRC, Sheffield Hallam has the 70th highest median income of the 650 parliamentary constituencies, with those above it almost exclusively in London and the South East, and placing it above Tunbridge Wells (76th), The Cotswolds (92nd), Cambridge (97th), Hemel Hempstead (103rd), and David Cameron's former Witney constituency (121st). The 2001 Census showed Hallam to have the highest number of people classified as professionals of any of the UK constituencies. Furthermore,"
"MPs (David Davis, Graham Stuart, Greg Knight and Andrew Percy) were all re-elected with substantially increased shares of the vote. Labour made a clean sweep across South Yorkshire, holding the thirteen which they had already (including Doncaster North for former leader Ed Miliband and Doncaster Central for former Chief Whip Dame Rosie Winterton) as well as gaining Sheffield Hallam from the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. In West Yorkshire five Conservatives (Craig Whittaker, Alec Shelbrooke, Andrea Jenkyns, Stuart Andrew and Philip Davies) were re-elected. Two others (Jason McCartney and Kris Hopkins) were defeated by Labour, as was the only"
"He took part in the miners' strike of 1984–85 as an NUM member, staying out for the duration. In 2000, Harpham was first elected to Sheffield City Council, serving as the councillor for Manor ward. He represented Darnall ward from 2004. He was deputy leader of the council from 2012. Harpham was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough in the 2015 general election. He was one of the final deep coal miners ever to enter parliament. He was one of 125 MPs who employed a member of their family, in his case, employing his"
"Elm Hall Primary, Southview, and Silver End Primary. Both Chipping Hill School and Powers Hall Junior School received Outstanding OfSTED reports in 2008. Witham is part of the Witham constituency of the House of Commons. The local Member of Parliament (MP) is the Conservative Priti Patel, who was elected at the 2010 General Election, becoming the first Asian female Conservative MP ever elected to Parliament. Ms Patel was re-elected at the 2015 General Election with an increased majority. The constituency includes Hatfield Peverel, Langford, Wickham Bishops, Marks Tey, Tiptree, Tolleshunt Knights, Stanway Kelvedon, and Coggeshall. It is regarded as a"
"Michelle Donelan Michelle Emma May Elizabeth Donelan (born 8 April 1984, Whitley, Cheshire) is a British Conservative Party politician. She was elected at the general election in May 2015 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Chippenham constituency in Wiltshire, which includes the market towns of Bradford on Avon, Chippenham, Corsham and Melksham, and the surrounding rural areas. Originally from Cheshire, where her parents live at Whitley, Donelan came to attention when she spoke at a Conservative Party Conference aged fifteen. She studied for a degree in history and politics at the University of York and then stood for"
"Chesham and Amersham (UK Parliament constituency) Chesham and Amersham () is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The seat has been represented by Dame Cheryl Gillan of the Conservative Party since the 1992 general election. 1974-1983: The Urban District of Chesham, and the Rural District of Amersham. 1983-1997: The District of Chiltern wards of Amersham Common, Amersham-on-the-Hill, Amersham Town, Asheridge Vale, Ashley Green and Latimer, Austenwood, Chalfont Common, Chalfont St Giles, Chalfont St Peter Central, Chartridge, Chenies, Chesham Bois and Weedon Hill, Cholesbury and The Lee, Coleshill and Penn Street, Gold Hill, Hilltop,"